Poetry. A HOUSE THAT FALLS examines the way the mind works through the fogged lens of Alzheimer's disease; the way memories, relationships, and even language itself disarticulates; the way we perceive and misperceive ourselves, our loved ones and our own histories; and how we learn to survive inside these strange and fluid worlds. Naomi Shihab Nye says, "There's something radiantly deep in the poems....Something luminous and haunting, familiar yet magnetically charged, potently mysterious." Denise Duhamel comments, "Sean Nevin understands the paradox of using language to capture its unraveling. In heartbreaking poems that chronicle Alzheimer's, he probes the power of memory and the tragic beauty of its demise...A HOUSE THAT FALLS is a poignant and evocative chapbook."

Sean Nevin teaches creative writing at Arizona State University where he is director of the Young Writer's Program and is co-editor of 22 Across: a Review of Young Writers. He is the recipient of Literature Fellowships in Poetry from both the NEA and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poems have been published in numerous journals including: the Gettysburg Review, North American Review, 42opus, JAMA, and Hayden's Ferry Review. He is the author of A House that Falls (Slapering Hol Press) and Oblivio Gate, which won the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry First Book Prize (Southern Illinois University Press).